Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail)
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I agree with Ms Horan on core funding to provide existing services. One of the big challenges we will increasingly face is that because of the rapid pace of technological change, we will all be required to upskill and reskill. Programmes such as Springboard have been effective - and there have been some moves - but in terms of the scale of what we will need to do and the amount of investment that will be required, has any effort been made to quantify the costs that are likely in those circumstances if 65% of all existing jobs will be either redundant or significantly changed in the next decade? Mr. Horgan is smiling at me. Does he want to respond?